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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Oct. 11, Day 285 - Hebrews 7

26 He
is the kind of high priest we need because he is holy and blameless,
unstained by sin. He has been set apart from sinners and has been given
the highest place of honor in heaven.27 Unlike
those other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices every
day. They did this for their own sins first and then for the sins of the
people. But Jesus did this once for all when he offered himself as the
sacrifice for the people’s sins.

2 comments:

Wow. No wonder I don't remember reading much in Hebrews. It is so different from Paul's writings. I find it difficult to follow. I'm going to have to read some commentaries on some of these verses to get better perspective. :-)

I hear the Savior say, “Thy strength indeed is small; Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in Me thine all in all.” Refrain: Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow. For nothing good have I Whereby Thy grace to claim; I’ll wash my garments white In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb. And now complete in Him, My robe, His righteousness, Close sheltered ’neath His side, I am divinely blest. Lord, now indeed I find Thy pow’r, and Thine alone, Can change the leper’s spots And melt the heart of stone. When from my dying bed My ransomed soul shall rise, “Jesus died my soul to save,” Shall rend the vaulted skies. And when before the throne I stand in Him complete, I’ll lay my trophies down, All down at Jesus’ feet.

http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Jesus_Paid_It_All/

1 Peter 1:18-19 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.

Hebrews 719 Moses’ Teachings couldn’t accomplish everything that God required. But we have something else that gives us greater confidence and allows us to approach God. 20 None of this happened without an oath. The men from the tribe of Levi may have become priests without an oath, 21 but Jesus became a priest when God took an oath. God said about him, “The Lord has taken an oath and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever.” 22 In this way Jesus has become the guarantee of a better promise. 23 There was a long succession of priests because when a priest died he could no longer serve.24 But Jesus lives forever, so he serves as a priest forever. 25 That is why he is always able to save those who come to God through him. He can do this because he always lives and intercedes for them. 26 We need a chief priest who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, and who has the highest position in heaven.27 We need a priest who doesn’t have to bring daily sacrifices as those chief priests did. First they brought sacrifices for their own sins, and then they brought sacrifices for the sins of the people. Jesus brought the sacrifice for the sins of the people once and for all when he sacrificed himself. 28 Moses’ Teachings designated mortals as chief priests even though they had weaknesses. But God’s promise, which came after Moses’ Teachings, designated the Son who forever accomplished everything that God required.